Warzone/The Drive: Navy May Need More Than $5 Billion To Fix Its China Lake Base After Powerful Quakes
The service needs to completely replace dozens of buildings at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, which is its premier test and development base.
The Navy may need more than $5 billion to return Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake to a "mission capable" status following a series of earthquakes back in July. The sprawling base, which houses the service's premier developmental test facilities for aircraft and weapons, sustained significant damage, including to the highly specialized facilities and the equipment within them.
A pair of major earthquakes, with registered magnitudes of 6.4 and 7.1, along with thousands of aftershocks, rocked the base and surrounding areas between July 4 and 5, 2019. Getting the facilities back up and running is a major priority for the Navy, given that China supports so much critical research and development work, which you can read all about in greater depth in these past War Zone articles.
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WNU Editor: This is one huge U.S. Navy base on land.
7 comments:
Ah whooo cares, a few billion here, a few billion there, who needs schools and hospitals and decent roads or police? We want more military bases! F yeah!
Perhaps they should also rename it too, CHINA Lake? Come on...!!
$5 billion in this free spending, debt ridden country no longer gets an eye blink from me anymore. This is chump change.
"Ah whooo cares, a few billion here, a few billion there, who needs schools... blah, blah, blah!"
Mo money does not equate to better education. Big city, blue run school spend the most and achieve the least.
Hospitals take insurance money, which is private. If it is expensive, it is due on great part to cost shifting. It is why we have the term donut hole.
https://www.medicareinteractive.org/get-answers/medicare-prescription-drug-coverage-part-d/medicare-part-d-costs/the-part-d-donut-hole
Just think if we had no military, things would be so great we could give free health care to the whole wide world and the Martians and Venusians too. Awesome sign me up vote Liz Warren, the race faker.
Why would a liberal want police. Hey buddy, the liberals are currently at war with law enforcement. Get on the right sheet of music bobo.
Who calls Police officers pigs? Liberals
Who lies and say Officer Wilson Murdered Brown in Ferguson? Kamala "Da Ho" Harris and Pocahontas, both libtards.
Just wait. .in a few years Chinese will find some "historic and authentic maps" and claim that lake is theirs
I hope this string of commentary does not reflect the intellect of the average WNU reader. Wow.
The U.S. Military is moving into a new era of drone weaponry guided by A.I. That includes, as Trump unwisely mentioned, controlled nuclear reaction propulsion weapon systems applicable to land, sea, air, and space missions. Rigorous testing is a necessity. The Russians have traditionally advanced their rocketry and aircraft capabilities through repeated failures and learning from the experiences.
In the interest of National Security the China Lake Base must be rebuilt to operational status. But it should be considered that it is unwise to build bases that bear a heavy responsibility for our security on dangerous fault zones and near potentially very active volcanoes. Unless the location is a requirement. Lots of open space in North and South Dakota.
Dov,
True, but the Dakotas would not help with qualifying air wings with carrier ops.
Although with automation does it matter?
I think it does with malware.
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